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Volume CXVI September, 2008 No. 7
Published by the American Union of Swedish Singers
In its 116th year of Performing Svenska Sånger in America
An Outstanding Convention in Portland
Join the 2009 Sweden Singing Tour
Continued on page 14
The planning and excitement start now.
Place the A.U.S.S. concert tour to Sweden
on your schedule for July of 2009. With a
chorus of your friends you are guaranteed
wonderful memories for a lifetime.
This tour will include many new areas,
towns and cities. The beginning of the tour
will concentrate on southern Sweden, in-cluding
Öland, Karlskrona and Malmö. The
hyttsill event in conjunction with our Växjö
visit should be a repeat of our 1999 hyttsill
in Bergdalen. During our Stockholm stay,
we will take an overnight cruise to Åland.
Check out the itinerary on the next page for
all the details.
There will be an opportunity to extend your
stay to visit other areas or meet up with rel-atives.
Our expert travel organizer/agent,
Don Ahlm, can individualize your plans.
So sign up now. Contact Nelson’s Scan-dinavia
by calling 1-800-542-1689, or by
emailing info@nelsonsscandinavia.com
with specific details and questions.
Please respond by October 25 if you are
intereseted in joining the tour.
Our AUSS and Cultural Heritage Founda-tion
supported tours in 1989, 1999, and 2005
were great and this one will be as well.
Sångarhälsningar,
Don Ahlm and Carl-Erik Westberg
Above: Approximately 380 singers were on
stage for the Grand Concert.
Below: Oregon’s Swedish Vice-Consul, Ross
Fogelquist, dons his Swedish folk costume
for “Sweden Night”
Left: Sherry Dreyfuss (Grand Concert
Assistant Director-in-Chief) directs a song at
the afterglow.
Below left: Betsy and Ernie Gunn (Grand
Concert Director-in-Chief) enjoy the Sunday
Brunch after a successful Grand Concert.
Convention co-chairs (left to right): Karen Jones, Alana Mapes (newly elected AUSS
President), and Jody Jones enjoy the fruits of their labors at the Sunday Brunch.
How Swede It Was! Our convention hosts
in Portland, Oregon went “above and be-yond”
expectations with an outstanding con-vention.
Wednesday, July 2. Convention registra-tion
began in the “City of Roses” with a yel-low
rose given out to each woman (a yellow
rose represents friendship). We received blue
and yellow striped tote bags, blue and yel-low
pens, notebooks, and other goodies in
our registration packet.
The Foundation membership meeting was
held this afternoon (details will be included
in a separate article). For those not attend-ing
the meeting, there was time to explore
Portland, hang out in Portland’s hospitality
suite, or just relax.
“Coming to America” was the theme of the
opening night program. The Portland cho-ruses
did a wonderful job of putting togeth-er
a multi-media program with lots of pho-tos,
stories, and singing. Table centerpieces
consisted of small trunks, reminiscent of
those brought over by the immigrants, filled
with old photos and sheet music, and a scarf.
The dessert buffet was delectable, accompa-nied
by Starbucks coffee. Later, the Port-land
and Chicago hospitality rooms were
abuzz with conversation and song.
Thursday, July 3. Portland’s hospitality
room was open early for breakfast, with
home-made breads, bagels, fruit, and coffee/
tea/hot chocolate, which we could eat there,
or take with us in white paper bags, which
were stamped and colored with Swedish folk
figures. What a nice touch – and lots of
work!
After a morning of rehearsing, we embarked
on a two-hour luncheon cruise on the Wil-lamette
River. Three boats were needed to
handle the singers and guests. Each was
equipped with a piano, so we could enter-tain
each other. Sailboat centerpieces in blue

Volume CXVI September, 2008 No. 7
Published by the American Union of Swedish Singers
In its 116th year of Performing Svenska Sånger in America
An Outstanding Convention in Portland
Join the 2009 Sweden Singing Tour
Continued on page 14
The planning and excitement start now.
Place the A.U.S.S. concert tour to Sweden
on your schedule for July of 2009. With a
chorus of your friends you are guaranteed
wonderful memories for a lifetime.
This tour will include many new areas,
towns and cities. The beginning of the tour
will concentrate on southern Sweden, in-cluding
Öland, Karlskrona and Malmö. The
hyttsill event in conjunction with our Växjö
visit should be a repeat of our 1999 hyttsill
in Bergdalen. During our Stockholm stay,
we will take an overnight cruise to Åland.
Check out the itinerary on the next page for
all the details.
There will be an opportunity to extend your
stay to visit other areas or meet up with rel-atives.
Our expert travel organizer/agent,
Don Ahlm, can individualize your plans.
So sign up now. Contact Nelson’s Scan-dinavia
by calling 1-800-542-1689, or by
emailing info@nelsonsscandinavia.com
with specific details and questions.
Please respond by October 25 if you are
intereseted in joining the tour.
Our AUSS and Cultural Heritage Founda-tion
supported tours in 1989, 1999, and 2005
were great and this one will be as well.
Sångarhälsningar,
Don Ahlm and Carl-Erik Westberg
Above: Approximately 380 singers were on
stage for the Grand Concert.
Below: Oregon’s Swedish Vice-Consul, Ross
Fogelquist, dons his Swedish folk costume
for “Sweden Night”
Left: Sherry Dreyfuss (Grand Concert
Assistant Director-in-Chief) directs a song at
the afterglow.
Below left: Betsy and Ernie Gunn (Grand
Concert Director-in-Chief) enjoy the Sunday
Brunch after a successful Grand Concert.
Convention co-chairs (left to right): Karen Jones, Alana Mapes (newly elected AUSS
President), and Jody Jones enjoy the fruits of their labors at the Sunday Brunch.
How Swede It Was! Our convention hosts
in Portland, Oregon went “above and be-yond”
expectations with an outstanding con-vention.
Wednesday, July 2. Convention registra-tion
began in the “City of Roses” with a yel-low
rose given out to each woman (a yellow
rose represents friendship). We received blue
and yellow striped tote bags, blue and yel-low
pens, notebooks, and other goodies in
our registration packet.
The Foundation membership meeting was
held this afternoon (details will be included
in a separate article). For those not attend-ing
the meeting, there was time to explore
Portland, hang out in Portland’s hospitality
suite, or just relax.
“Coming to America” was the theme of the
opening night program. The Portland cho-ruses
did a wonderful job of putting togeth-er
a multi-media program with lots of pho-tos,
stories, and singing. Table centerpieces
consisted of small trunks, reminiscent of
those brought over by the immigrants, filled
with old photos and sheet music, and a scarf.
The dessert buffet was delectable, accompa-nied
by Starbucks coffee. Later, the Port-land
and Chicago hospitality rooms were
abuzz with conversation and song.
Thursday, July 3. Portland’s hospitality
room was open early for breakfast, with
home-made breads, bagels, fruit, and coffee/
tea/hot chocolate, which we could eat there,
or take with us in white paper bags, which
were stamped and colored with Swedish folk
figures. What a nice touch – and lots of
work!
After a morning of rehearsing, we embarked
on a two-hour luncheon cruise on the Wil-lamette
River. Three boats were needed to
handle the singers and guests. Each was
equipped with a piano, so we could enter-tain
each other. Sailboat centerpieces in blue